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Transaction Costs, Land Rental Markets, and Their Impact on Youth Access to Agriculture in Tanzania

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  • Jacob Ricker-Gilbert
  • Jordan Chamberlin

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We use three waves of nationally representative panel data from Tanzania to estimate the extent to which land rental markets provide a pathway for youth to enter into agriculture. We also investigate how transaction costs may impede youth access to renting-in land. Results suggest that rental markets are important mechanisms through which young farmers access land, but younger farmers face higher transaction costs when renting land than do older farmers. We also find evidence that younger farmers pay higher prices for rented land and are somewhat less likely to belong to village savings groups than are their older counterparts.

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  • Jacob Ricker-Gilbert & Jordan Chamberlin, 2018. "Transaction Costs, Land Rental Markets, and Their Impact on Youth Access to Agriculture in Tanzania," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 94(4), pages 541-555.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:landec:v:94:y:2018:i:4:p:541-555
    Note: DOI: 10.3368/le.94.4.541
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    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment

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